Lobotidae

Lobotidae is a family of ray-finned fishes, the tripletails, circumtropical marine fishes, and tiger perches, Asian freshwater fishes. The family is placed in the order Spariformes in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World but this classification and the taxa included within the family is not agreed on by all workers.

Lobotidae
Atlantic tripletail (Lobotes surinamensis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Spariformes
Family: Lobotidae
Gill, 1861
Genera

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Taxonomy

Lobotidae was firs proposed as a family in 1861 by the American biologist Theodore Gill.[1] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the Lobotidae within the order Spariformes and provisionally includes the genus Datnioides in the family.[2] Other workers have included a third genus, Hapalogenys in the Lobotidae.[3] However, yet more wrokers place these three taxa in monotypic families within the order Lobotiformes in the series Eupercaria.[4]

Genera

Lobotidae contaons the following genera:[2][5]

Characteristics

Lobotidae have toothless palatines and vomers. They have a rounded caudal finsimilar to that of cichlids. and the extended posterior lobes on the rear dorsal fin and anal fin give the impression of having three tails. The dorsal fins are supported by a total of 12 spines and 15 or 16 soft rays.[2] The maximum size of these fishes varies from a standard length of 32 cm (13 in) for the New Guinea tiger perch (Datnioides campbelli) to a total length of 110 cm (43 in) in the Atlantic tripletail (Lobotes surinamensis).[3] The juveniles camouflage themselves by floating on their sides and resembling fallen leaves.[2]

Distribution and habitat

Lobotidae are tropical and subtropical fishes, the triplefins are marine fishes with a oantropical distribution while the tiger perches are freshwater and brackish waters fishes of rivers and estuaries in south and southeast Asia and New Guinea.[2]

References
  1. Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
  2. Nelson, J.S.; Grande, T.C.; Wilson, M.V.H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 502–506. doi:10.1002/9781119174844. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. LCCN 2015037522. OCLC 951899884. OL 25909650M.
  3. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2023). "Lobotidae" in FishBase. June 2023 version.
  4. Ricardo Betancur-R; Edward O. Wiley; Gloria Arratia; et al. (2017). "Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (162). doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3.
  5. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Lobotodae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
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